Chaotic scenes at MotoGP.

Hole in the ground: Chaos in MotoGP

It was a turbulent MotoGP afternoon that unfolded in Brazil on Saturday. In the end, Marc Márquez took the victory.

March 21, 2026

From: det

The MotoGP sprint race in Goiânia started almost 90 minutes late on Saturday. The reason: After qualifying in the afternoon and heavy rain, a sinkhole had formed in the track at the Autódromo Aryton Senna. Suddenly, the track maintenance crews had to be called in.

The surface was cut out into a rectangular area, the resulting pit was then filled and closed. So instead of starting at 7 p.m., the race began at 8:20 p.m. And it was no less spectacular.

Fabio Di Giannantonio, who had won qualifying a few hours earlier, led until two laps before the end, when his Ducati teammate Márquez overtook him and celebrated his first victory of the season.